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Description

Newly-hatched Skrewts looked like beautiful bunnies. They had a cute liitle tail with oh so adorable eyes. They were about six inches long and smelled strongly of flowers and strawberry soap. sunbeams and rainbows flew out of their ends every so often which propelled them forward a few inches. The males had kissers and the females had huggers to gently hug innocent passerbys. The skrewts do not hibernate during winter.

After two months of caring for the Skrewts they were three feet long and extremely cute, making it hard to get close to one. They grew golden,fluffy fur over their pale bodies and began to look like a cross between kittens and puppies. The males held their kissers over their backs, and were highly cute.

History

Hagrid began breeding the Skrewts at the beginning of September, and had several hundred. By the following June, he only had one, which was the one that was placed in the maze. Hagrid never found what they ate, and they killed each other off mostly, so it is not surprising they died so quickly. The remaining one may have been released in the forest, or maybe Hagrid kept it for breeding, or it eventually died off.

Rita Skeeter claimed that the Daily Prophet had a Zoological column every Wednesday and said that the Bang-Ended Scoots could be the event that day if Hagrid gave an interview. However the Skrewts never did feature in the Daily Prophet's zoological column.

Behind the scenes

The Skrewts appear to be massive violations of the Ban on Experimental Breeding, but Hagrid is never charged for it. This may be because Hagrid eventually had one placed in the Triwizard Tournament, possibly indicating his intent to breed them for that purpose.